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From: Kathy Cardoza <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Change Mac names in TMG?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:40:23 -0800
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Thank you, Ron, for pointing that out about TMG Utility.

Also, thank you, John, for your excellent directions! I was able to
do just as you suggested and, of course, it solved my problem. I
appreciate the directions because I had previously checked in TMGU
but could not see how it would fix the names I needed fixing. A
little knowledge goes a long way, LOL.

As long as I'm at it, thank you for two excellent programs .....TMG
Utility and SecondSite. Your efforts in creating these programs and
your wonderful support of them is appreciated by many, I know!

Kathy

On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:17 AM, John Cardinal wrote:

> Ron Hamlin wrote:
>> TMG Utility will make the changes you would like. If you
>> don't have it, it's available at www.johncardinal.com/tmgutil
>>
>> Kathy Cardoza wrote:
>>> Is there a way to change the way certain surnames appear in TMG? For
>>> instance:
>>>
>>> MacHado should be Machado
>>> MacEdo should be Macedo
>>> MacKley should be Mackley
>>>
>>> I would like to clean this up in my program to be the way it should
>>> be.
>
> Kathy,
>
> I'd like to expand on Ron's answer.
>
> TMG Utility has two features of interest in this situation:
>
> - Change Name Parts
>
> - Capitalize Names
>
> Change Name Parts can be used to change parts of names. I think it
> is the
> best choice in this case. Change Name Parts accepts a set of rules,
> including filters (what names to change) and actions (what change
> to make).
> In this case, your rules would be
>
> If Surname equal to "MacHado"
>
> Change Surname set to "Machado"
> and Change SortSurname copy Surname
>
> Repeat that for all the surnames you want to modify.
>
> I include a couple "rule files" with TMG Utility that have pre-cooked
> filters and actions, and there is one for this case. So, you could
> open the
> Rules Editor and then use the Load Rules button to load the "Change
> Surname.u5r" file. It is configured to prompt you for the current
> version of
> the name and then for the desired version of the name. So, you run
> the same
> set of rules once for each surname, but vary the response to the
> prompts
> based on whether you are fixing Machado or Mackley or whatever.
>
> Capitalize Names is designed to convert surnames stored in all
> uppercase to
> a mix of uppercase and lowercase. It doesn't apply here, for two
> reasons.
> First, the names already are a mix of uppercase and lowercase. Second,
> Capitalize Names doesn't do the right thing 100% of the time. It is
> designed
> to do most of the work when a the project has all surnames in
> uppercase, and
> so a 98% solution reduces the work dramatically: perfection is
> nice, but not
> necessary. You fix the exceptions manually.
>
> One specific area where Capitalize Names won't always do the right
> thing is
> "Mac" names. The program converts "Mac" names to have a capital
> following
> the "Mac" except when the surname is on a list of a few hundred
> exceptions.
> I can't recall if "Machado" or the other names listed above are on the
> exceptions table. You can edit the table, but again... I think
> Change Name
> Parts is the right choice for you.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> John
>
>
>
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